[FFmpeg-devel] Fw: GSoC 2025: Please review your Project Ideas lists

[Soft Works]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Michael Niedermayer
> Sent: Freitag, 14. Februar 2025 20:29
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: [FFmpeg-devel] Fw: GSoC 2025: Please review your Project Ideas lists
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> Please help improve the gsoc 2025 page
> 
> 2 ideas are missing backup mentors, if you are able please
> add yourself to them as backup mentor
> 
> Also please add more ideas!

Hi Michael,

would this be a valid gsoc project?


- Develop a scraping tool which iterates ffmpeg forks on GitHub, investigates 
  branches and identifies patches which don't exist in upstream ffmpeg
- Deduplicate results
- Setup a customized AI with knowledge about the ffmpeg source code
- Run this AI to classify the results:
  - feature or fix
  - generally valid or just special cake
  - value for the project
- Finally filter and produce a list of high-value patches which are worth looking at

I believe there are many good and valuable patches out there, which never made
It into ffmpeg because developers didn't want to go through the submission
Procedures.

sw